It is possible to keep pigs with intact tails in fully-slatted systems
Appropriate enrichment is essential for healthy, productive pigs but the type of enrichment used in in different systems is crucial to its success as an alleviator of damaging behaviours such as tail biting.
16 August 2019
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| Jen-YunChou, Rick B. D'Eath, Dale A. Sandercock, Natalie Waran, Amy Haigh, Keelin O'Driscoll | ||||
| (2018) | Use of different wood types as environmental enrichment to manage tail biting in docked pigs in a commercial fully-slatted system. Livestock Science | 213:19-27 |
Emily Houghton
Editor, The Pig Site
Emily Houghton is a Zoology graduate from Cardiff University and was the editor of The Pig Site from October 2017 to May 2020. Emily has worked in livestock husbandry, and has written, conducted and assisted with research projects regarding the synthesis of welfare and productivity of free-range food species.
